My images are inspired by the places I’ve lived, the places I visit, the places I have traveled to and the places I romanticize. I sometimes think of “place” as an emotional state rather than a geographic location; our associations and experience with certain places can trigger both nostalgia and wanderlust. Recalling urban and natural settings, I strive to visualize a manifestation of these places combining remnants of reality, memory, and dream.
Working mainly in print media, drawing and collage, I create artwork that recalls images of landscape often tied in with the idea of place, home and shelter. These images are often constructions from actual places in my past travels as well as found images that have been transformed through various drawing and printmaking processes.
Artist Biography
Jennifer Manzella is an artist and a printmaker who works mainly with relief and etching processes. In her large reduction block series she explores the complex relationship between color and landscape inspired by traditional Japanese Ukiyo- e prints. In a recent woodblock print series she depicts hybrid dwellings that are meant to tap into a nostalgic sense of being mobile or immobile. She has been an art educator for ten years and received an MFA in printmaking at The University of Georgia in Athens, GA. Jennifer’s prints have been in numerous juried national and international exhibitions including two juried exhibitions at the International Print Center in New York City. Having relocated back to Philadelphia last summer, she lived in Athens, GA for twelve years where she taught as a full time lecturer for the University of North Georgia. Jennifer currently lives in South Philly and teaches printmaking at Arcadia University in Glenside, PA.
Education
2007 The University of Georgia, Athens, GA MFA, Printmaking
2005 The University of Georgia Study Abroad in Cortona, Italy Graduate Assistant
1998 The University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA BA, Studio Art
2016 Haystack School of Crafts Technical Assistant Scholarship, Deer Isle, ME
Best in Show 2D Award, Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Haystack Open Studio Residency, Deer Isle, ME
Haystack Workshop/Japanese Woodblock Prints, Deer Isle, ME
Summer Studio Residency, BYO Print, Philadelphia, PA
2014 Summer Studio Residency, BYO Print, Philadelphia, PA
2013 Rebecca Thompson Stonington Residency, Stonington, ME
2012 Studio Residency, Lower Eastside Print Shop, New York, NY
2011 Studio Residency, Lower Eastside Print Shop, New York, NY
2010 Brooklyn Arts Council & Metrotech BID, City Walls Mural Project, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Andy Warhol Foundation Grant, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Teaching Assistantship, Lamar Dodd School of Art UGA, Athens, GA
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences Study Abroad Scholarship, UGA, Athens, GA
Cortona Stipend Scholarship, UGA, Athens, GA
Affiliation
Southern Graphics Council Member BYO Print Member, Philadelphia, PA Mid American Print Council Member
Professional Experience
2016 - Present Adjunct Instructor of Art, Arcadia University, Glenside, PA
2013 - 2016 Lecturer of Art, The University of North Georgia, Gainesville, GA
2009 - 2012 Full-time Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
2007 - 2009 Adjunct Instructor of Art, Gainesville State College, Gainesville, GA
Adjunct Instructor of Printmaking/Foundations, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005 - 2007 Teaching Assistant, Instructor of Record, The University of Georgia, Athens, GA
2005 Teaching Assistant Summer Semester, The University of Georgia, in Cortona, Italy
Collaborative Projects & Additional Experience 2017 Volunteer coordinator, International Southern Graphics Council Conference, Terminus, Atlanta GA
2016 Volunteer, Mural Arts Philadelphia
2014 Contributing researcher on an upcoming article about the El Camino Santiago with anthropologist Dr. Joseph Manzella. Walked the pilgrimage route called the Camino Frances approximately 700 kms.
2014 Installation Technician, Advice From the Oceans/ Athens Celebrates Elephant Six Exhibition, ATHICA, Athens, GA
2010 - 2011 Contributing member and founder, Blue Tin Artist Collective, Athens, GA
2009 – 2011 Printmaking Instructor, Lyndon House Arts Center in Athens, GA
Exhibitions
Solo
2017 Structurally Sound, Nice Things Handmade, Philadelphia, PA
2010 City Walls Mural Project, Sponsored by Brooklyn Arts Council, Brooklyn, NY
2007 Time Spent Sleeping; Time Spent Awake, Eyedrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 The Nature of Things, Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA
2005 Temporal Landscapes, Hot Corner Gallery, Athens, GA
1998 New Works, First Unitarian Church, Cambridge, MA
Group
2017 New Prints/Winter, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY Juried Exhibition
UGA Alumni Show, Gallery 72, Atlanta, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
Works on Paper- NJC 2017, LBI Foundation of the Arts & Sciences, Long Beach Island, NJ
Transferred Impressions, Black Moth Gallery, Ardmore, PA
2016 Tiny Universe Two, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA Invitational
Out of Print – BYO Group show, B-Square Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Landscape, Sense of Place, SITE: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Killing the Cure, Random Tea Room, Philadelphia, PA
An Elegant Statement, Asheville Bookworks, Asheville, NC
41st Annual Juried Exhibition, Lyndon House, Athens, GA
Southworks, Oconee Cultural Center for the Arts, Watkinsville, GA
2015 Detour Thru My Mind, ATHICA, Athens GA
UNG Faculty Art Exhibition, Quinlan Center for Visual Art, Gainesville, GA
2014 Athens Arcana: A Contemporary Tarot, ATHICA, Athens, GA Invitational
Somewheres & Nowheres: New Prints, IPCNY, NYC International Juried Exhibition
New Prints Benefit and Silent Auction, International Print Center New York, NYC, NY
2nd ATHICA Mystery Triennial, ATHICA, Athens, GA Invitational
Tiny Universe, Gallery@ Hotel Indigo, Athens, GA Invitational
2013 ATHICARDS: A Creative Deck of Athens Art, ATHICA, Athens, GA
GSC Faculty Biennial Exhibition, Roy C. Moore Gallery, Gainesville, GA
2011 The Last Hoorah, Blue Tin Gallery, Athens, GA
ATHICA Mystery Triennial, ATHICA, Athens, GA Invitational
